Texas Bandits: Real to Reel
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Citing the adage that "those who do not study history are condemned to get it from Hollywood," popular historian Mona Sizer profiles a dozen notorious Texas outlaws and how they have been portrayed on the Silver Screen.
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From Pancho Villa - who was paid $25,000 by the Mutual Film Company to portray himself - to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow (portrayed by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty), Sizer separates fact from fancy in a fun, rollicking look at the bad guys of Texas Westerns.
Sidebars (How to Rob a Train,How to Hold Up a Stagecoach,and The Hollywood Posse)round out this delightful homage to actual and movie bandits alike.
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